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On Rumours How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

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Publisher's Synopsis

Sunstein explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. He also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural biases and even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780141044293
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.24
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 100
Weight: 94g
Height: 195mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 8mm